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Merryweather was a coal-mining town, and, it being Sunday, it was reasonable to expect the men to be in town. Further, the coal-miners had never lost any love for the Greek fishermen, and were pretty certain to render us hearty assistance. We strained our eyes for a glimpse of the town, and the first sight we caught of it gave us immense relief. The wharves were black with men.
Presently came the Germans to us again, this time accompanied by officers in uniform who stood apart and watched with an air of passing judgment. They asked us now point-blank whether or not we were willing to work in the coal mines and thus make some return for the cost of keeping us; and we answered with one voice that we were not coal-miners and therefore not willing.
All my life, I've been living on the labour of coal-miners, and I've never taken the trouble to go near them, to see how my money was got!" "But, Hal! These aren't your people! They are Mr. Harrigan's people!" "Yes," he said, "but it's all the same. They toil, and we live on their toil, and take it as a matter of course." "But what can one do about it, Hal?"
The very infant mortality of a slum parish in the East End of London is three times that of a middle-class parish in the West End. In the United States, in the last fourteen years, a total of coal-miners, greater than our entire standing army, has been killed and injured.
A loose flannel shirt, which had once been red, a pair of indescribable trowsers, and thick-soled shoes, completed his dress, an attire which I at once recognized as that common among the coal-miners of the district. "'Deed and truth, Sur, they is cinder-heaps and slag from the iron-works, Sur; and yon is Merthyr-Tydvil, sure."
We did not think about the mill-people; they seemed as far from us as the coal-miners of a vague West, or the down-gatherers on the crags of shores whose names we did not think it worth while to remember. One January evening, we were forced to think about the mills with curdling horror that no one living in that locality when the tragedy happened will forget.
And yet and yet She looked fleetingly into those pale, dingy, underfed, repulsive faces and wondered if coal-miners' families looked like that. But she said aloud at once, almost as though she had crooked an arm to shield herself: "But he said he did not want me to answer at once!
"I'll keep mum," said Hal; and the stranger opened a flap inside his shirt, and drew out a letter which certified him to be Thomas Olson, an organiser for the United Mine-Workers, the great national union of the coal-miners! Hal was so startled by this discovery that he stopped in his tracks and gazed at the man.
If it be said that these arguments are general, is it not true that special circumstances differentiate the case of coal-miners from that of many other industries in this country? Others have spoken of the heat of the mine, the danger of fire-damp, of the cramped position, of the muscular exertions of the miner, at work in moist galleries perhaps a mile under the ground.
But I'm sure about how it has affected the people who live in the world it's a great golden deed that has enriched everybody not just Austin's coal-miners, but everybody who had heard of it. The sky is higher because of it. Everybody has a new conception of the good that's possible.
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